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Asante Kotoko ace Songne Yacouba is demanding a yearly salary of US$150,000 before signing a new deal with the Ghanaian giants. But the Porcupine Warriors have offered the Burkinabe a paltry GHc 50,000-a-year contract which was rejected by his representatives. Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM Sports also reports there will be a final meeting between the two parties next week to decide ...

Hearts of Oak are set to lose live-wire Joseph Esso after they agreed to a transfer fee of $100,000 with Sudanese giants Al Hilal Omdurman, according to a media report. Esso has been superb for both Hearts of Oak and the Black Stars B in the year under review. His performance for both club and country has aroused a lot ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has approved Kim Grant as the coach of giants Accra Hearts of Oak ahead of the start of weekend’s start of the league season in the wake of the controversy surrounding the coaching future of the former international striker. This shows that the former Black Stars player has all the necessary certificates and papers to ...

Kim Grant has been asked by the hierarchy of Hearts of Oak to step aside after a confrontation in a meeting held today over his coaching certificate issues. Local media reports indicate that the stage is now set for David Duncan to finally return to the Raibow fraternity to replace Kim Grant and complete his “unfinished business” at Hearts of ...

Edward Odoom has been promoted as interim coach of Hearts of Oak ahead of the 2019/20 Ghana Premier League. The veteran trainer was given the nod to handle the Accra-based giants after management of the club ordered head coach Kim Grant to step aside on Tuesday. Grant was told to step aside because he has not got the required coaching ...

Withdrawn Hearts of Oak coach Kim Grant is in trouble for lying about his coaching background on his résumé. The 47-year-old falsely claimed he had undertaken UEFA A Coaching certificate [the equivalent for a CAF A License] when he applied for the job in October, 2019. Grant’s undoing and humiliation happened when Hearts insisted on having his certificate, but it ...

Ghana is ending 2019 on the 47th position in the World and 6th position in Africa in the FIFA ranking as the last for the year was released on Thursday. Ghana moved up four places in last month’s rankings thanks to the two victories in the month. The Black Stars wins over South Africa and Sao Tomé and Principe in ...

Ebusua Dwarfs have renewed the contract of seven (7) key players ahead of the upcoming season. Simon Martey, Albert Hammond, Isaac Donkor, Albert Gaisie and goalkeeper Danso wiredu have all inked new two-year deals to stay at the club until 2021. While Abu Nabu and Dennis korah penned until the end of 2020 season. The players went into fruitful discussions ...

The Ghana Football Association’s Congress has voted to maintain the new 18-team league structure beyond the 2019/2020 season. It will be recalled that during the last Elective Congress in October, it was unanimously agreed that the 2019/2020 season should be expanded from 16 to 18 teams to among other reasons reinstate Accra Great Olympics and King Faisal into the elite ...

Ace sports journalist, Sammy Heywood Okine has been appointed as the official publicist for Box Office promotions. His new appointment was made known at the “Bliss on The Hills” press conference organized by Box office promotions at The Gym boxing training center in Accra. The appointment comes in the wake of the promotions efforts to foster a cordial working relationship ...